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Articles

Volume 23, Number 1 (1998)

Literary Sites and Cultural Properties in Canadian Poetry

  • D.M.R. Bentley
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1998-01-01

Abstract

An examination of literary site pieces written in Canada during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Charles Sangster, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Catherine Parr Traill, Sir Charles G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Archibald Lampman reveals a persistent yearning on the part of Canadian writers to connect themselves with their landscapes and with the British literary tradition, particularly with the second generation of Romantic poets - Shelley, Keats, and Thomas Moore. The naturalization of a Romantic poet in Canadian space is a creative and connective act that bridges the temporal and geographical gaps between the Old and the New World and, in so doing, offers cultural memory as a source of inspiration and hope for a troubled present and uncertain future.